Ryan Reynolds News: 'Deadpool' Actor Jokes About His Father's Ashes

By Vincent Alocada, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, May 21, 2016

Ryan Reynolds injected some humor into his recent Twitter post where he teased about his deceased father.

"A family having a picnic about two hundred yards downwind, ate like, half my Dad's ashes this morning," the actor tweeted.

While the actor did not further elaborate on what really happened, many believe that he scattered the ashes of his cremated father.

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In a Huffington Post op-ed back in 2011, the "Deadpool" actor stated that he has a first-hand account of the disease as he had witnessed how it took over his father. He described his father as a strong and proud man who successfully raised him and his three other siblings. However, as the disease crawled into the Reynolds patriarch's system, he was slowly robbed of the things that he would have enjoyed in his golden years.

In the same article that Reynolds wrote, he mentioned that he had the opportunity to meet Michael J. Fox of the "Back to the Future" fame, who, to this day, still suffers from Parkinson's. The actor said that he couldn't help but be moved by the story of the actor as he embodies the overwhelming strength, passion, and unwavering commitment to help those individuals afflicted by the very the same disease that he is suffering from.

As Fox's story hit him, the actor revealed then that he offered to do something in order to help the cause of Parkinson's disease-stricken actor: run in the New York City Marathon, a decision he said as dumb as he is not a runner.

As he went further in his Huffington Post article, Reynolds went on and asked for donations for the organization run by Fox, which aims at alleviating the sufferings of those people with Parkinson's, hoping that his father's story then and his attempt to run for 26.2 miles, despite being not a runner, would inspire others to step up and do something for Parkinson's patients.

James Reynolds met his demise in October last year, as per E! Online.